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I like to keep most of my private life private.
Growing up, I was taught a mans word is his bond.
Growing up, I was taught a man's word is his bond.
In football, you're hitting, so you might as well hit in practice.
I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.
If you could still run and play, there's no reason to go see a doctor, right?
The best thing I've ever heard another player say is, 'I hate playing against you.'
It's a place I'll always remember, and I have nothing bad to say about New England. I love that place.
If I can run, I'm not going to sit out any game. I'm here to play football, not to watch and collect a check.
I'm not going to say something I shouldn't. In that way, I was probably the perfect guy to play in New England.
You always feel pretty good after a bye, after a couple of days off. Not having a game, you freshen up a little.
When someone invests in you, I don't want to disappoint them. I want to be the player they think they're getting.
I have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas.
You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.
The biggest thing for me is surrounding myself with good people and steering clear, far clear, of all my demons in the past.
I always was flattered when people would say I would do whatever it took for the team. I always thought of myself as that kind of guy.
I might be in a little decline. I don't know. How many guys that have played 150 games are still on the upswing? I've played a lot of games, a lot of snaps.
It's always great when you just pound the rock, impose your will, and that is going to break the spirit of the defense if you can keep running it and they can't stop you.
I just want to play until I think I don't feel good - and if I can still do it. If I can't do it, I don't think I'll keep going once I don't feel I'm playing the way I want to.
I'm not a racist. And to judge me by that one word is wrong. In no way, shape or form is it ever acceptable for me to use that word, even if it's friend to friend on a voicemail.
I understand what training camp is for. It's needed. It's necessary, so it's just one of those things that you have to put yourself through and it makes you better. It gets you in good shape, so it's necessary.
Once you've been around this business long enough, anything is a possibility. It's a business first and foremost. Guys play it because they love it, but it is a business, and if you don't understand that it's a business, you're lying to yourself.
You go back and look at the situations from both angles, and that's where the progress and the growth came, by being able to look at it from the other side. Moving forward, knowing to do the right thing was learning from my mistakes of the past. Sometimes it's just, don't do that.
My vision of being a professional, as opposed to being a football player before, has completely changed. Being a pro is doing everything right all the time. It sounds cliche, but if you apply that to strength training, if you apply that to a lot of body work, if you apply that to making good decisions, all the work I did on myself and all the time I spent with therapists and doctors and family, that was my mantra: "Do it right all the time." It started to build momentum, and it started to build up steam. Once I got the opportunity to come back and play, I just kept using that and it helped.